Lenovo is really crap
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Re: Lenovo's are shitty garbage
Re: Lenovo's are shitty garbage
First of all, i would like to congratulate Lenovo on being the first company in the world that have managed to build a laptop that's tailormade for Africa WHERE NOTHING EVER HAPPENS IN A HURRY!!!!!!!!! How they can even market this piece of crap is beyond me. Or maybe it's just a question of mass producing a product that's based on 90's technology and dumping it onto an unsuspecting market.
I have had quite a few laptops in my life but NEVER one as useless as this.I got my first one (Sahara) in 2009, secondhand, which my daughter still use, 10 years later. i have had a few frustrations along the way also but i have never had so much trouble as I have experienced with this Lenovo. Fiirst of all, half the memory space is already used BEFORE i could ever use it with all the unnecessary crap that's preloaded. I want a laptop that's according to what I want, not what someone else thinks I may need. If I want a program, I will install it myself, not have programs installed that I don't want or will ever use, just because Lenovo thinks I may need it. It's like going to a dealership to buy a Ford and they tell you you must buy a Lincoln because "We think you need it!"
Once again a Chinese product that no one wants. it should have come with instructions ; "Keep in a cool place and out of reach of children." (AND people who actually want to use it NOW, not when the cows come home!!)
If and when I can ever afford a laptop again (I'm a pensioner) it will DEFINITELY NOT be a Lenovo. Now that I also know what the address is of the local distributor is, once I have purchased a new (or secondhand one) I will NOT give this Lenovo to someone else but I WILL destroy it and mail to pieces to Lenovo so that they can KNOW, without a doubt, what I think of their crap product!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I am also going to publish this response on every platform I can find in the hope that more people in the world will know to stay as far away from Lenovo as possible!!
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@ynot said in Lenovo is really crap:
I am also going to publish this response on every platform I can find in the hope that more people in the world will know to stay as far away from Lenovo as possible!!
How is that going for you?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Lenovo is really crap:
How is that going for you?
Really slowly, he's doing it from his Lenovo laptop
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@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
For us, Lenovo is good.
Yeah, my main complaint right now is the IBM T42 units don't have a new enough CPU to run Windows 10,and they use IDE instead of SATA. The WiFi cards are not replaceable either, but what can you expect for decades-old machinery?
Other than that, they still run like champs.
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Have Lenovo given up on the terrible trackpads on the Thinkpads again yet? They seemed to stop them for a bit and go back to them.
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@loopback0 said in Lenovo is really crap:
Have Lenovo given up on the terrible trackpads on the Thinkpads again yet? They seemed to stop them for a bit and go back to them.
Trackpad? Dude, once you tried the nipple it's hard to justify trackpad nonsense!
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@Tsaukpaetra :this_is_what_lenovists_actually_believe.jpg:
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@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
@Tsaukpaetra Don't they have both still?
Mine do, but they're twelve years old...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Lenovo is really crap:
they're twelve years old...
Don't play with their nipple then, you freakin pedo
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@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
For us, Lenovo is good.
Yep, my personal preference is HP ProBooks, but our little fleet of ThinkPads has been fairly trouble free.
Only major problem was one defective ethernet port. I strongly suspect the user kept yanking it, so probably not the laptop's fault.
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@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
For us, Lenovo is good.
Eh, their consumer laptops tend to be just as failure prone as the competition. I've got one of their gamer models and the hinges started creaking after 2 years. I'm just waiting for the day the screen snaps off.
The Thinkpads are reasonable, if you've got one of the good trackpads, and if you don't have to use one of these X1 "Second Generation" keyboards which caused the Blakeyrant thread from the OP:
Just goes to show that they sometimes innovate in the wrong direction.
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@TimeBandit said in Lenovo is really crap:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Lenovo is really crap:
How is that going for you?
Really slowly, he's doing it from his Lenovo laptop
I must say, I really LOL'd. Not nostril whiff, real proper "hahahahahahaha".
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@hungrier said in Lenovo is really crap:
@Tsaukpaetra :this_is_what_lenovists_actually_believe.jpg:
Had a Lenovo from 2012 to 2016. Tried to get used to that nipple thing a few times, never got the hang of it. Completely useless.
Also, our whole batch of those Thinkpads had countless problems1 (all fixed at least once under the expensive extended warranty), but I believe the next generation the colleagues got were much more reliable. I switched to a shiny with a stupid keyboard layout instead.EDIT:
1 Mine had extremely broken casing at the hinges after a few years, but it got repaired.
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@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
The only thing I really hate with new L580 keyboard is that they removed context menu key and put PrtSc of all things in its place.
Could be worse, could be scroll lock.
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@topspin said in Lenovo is really crap:
@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
The only thing I really hate with new L580 keyboard is that they removed context menu key and put PrtSc of all things in its place.
Could be worse, could be scroll lock.
One of these days I'm going to add a listener for that key that gives you a prize.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Lenovo is really crap:
@topspin said in Lenovo is really crap:
@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
The only thing I really hate with new L580 keyboard is that they removed context menu key and put PrtSc of all things in its place.
Could be worse, could be scroll lock.
One of these days I'm going to add a listener for that key that gives you a prize.
Make it spit out your contact info and offer a date.
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@topspin The Ben Lubar Dating Site Thread is
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Never had a major complaint against anything of theirs in X or T series (and now P, I didn't even know those were a thing). The "fancy" Z or whatever series are a pile of shit though.
Currently using a P51 as my main work machine (no desktops, we have docks). Works well. Battery life is decent, especially considering it's technically on a charger (in the dock) 99.9% of the time, and it was already used before I got it. The NVME drive is large enough for work purposes at 500 gigs and is making the whole thing nice and snappy. And while I'm not a fan of this Nvidia Quadro GPU / APU... thing, it does the job.
So yeah, I think they are OK, hardware-wise. They fuck up every once in a while, but which manufacturer doesn't? On the software front, I wouldn't know, I always wipe the preinstalled shit on any machine I buy with the OS already installed, so.
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Lenovo makes stuff that really shines, and the shininess wears off really quickly. My previous computer was a Lenovo Flex, and regular use without even carrying it around caused the case to gradually pry itself apart. One day it up and stopped turning on, and it is so unfriendly to service that fixing it would have cost nearly half as much as my current laptop, so I decided to not even bother.
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@TimeBandit said in Lenovo is really crap:
@Onyx said in Lenovo is really crap:
which manufacturer doesn't?
Apple
I have bootcamp windows nonsense on my work MacBook. Best Windows laptop ever.
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@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
@TimeBandit said in Lenovo is really crap:
@Onyx said in Lenovo is really crap:
which manufacturer doesn't?
Apple
I have
bootcampVirtualBox windows nonsense on my work MacBook. Best Windows laptop ever.FTFM
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@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
I have bootcamp windows nonsense on my work MacBook. Best Windows laptop ever.
You're still stuck with crappy Windows
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Have a Lenovo here. WiFi never worked on this thing, and they just told me to use a cable. Fuck lenovo
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@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
@TimeBandit said in Lenovo is really crap:
@Onyx said in Lenovo is really crap:
which manufacturer doesn't?
Apple
I have bootcamp windows nonsense on my work MacBook. Best Windows laptop ever.
The Bootcamp drivers for the trackpads used to be shit, so I gave up with it.
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@TimeBandit said in Lenovo is really crap:
@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
I have bootcamp windows nonsense on my work MacBook. Best Windows laptop ever.
You're still stuck with crappy Windows
When Linux makes it easy to get to pornhub from bash I'll consider it.
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@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
When Linux makes it easy to get to pornhub from bash I'll consider it.
Linux has one of those new-fangled GUIs now.
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@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
When Linux makes it easy to get to pornhub from bash I'll consider it.
wgetorlynx
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@loopback0 said in Lenovo is really crap:
@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
When Linux makes it easy to get to pornhub from bash I'll consider it.
Linux has one of those new-fangled GUIs now.
They're all new and fangled. I'm a grumpy old man now. Nothing newer that windows 7 classic theme for me thank you.
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@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
Nothing newer that windows 7 classic theme for me thank you.
KDE has you covered
Windows 7 QtCurve Theme
Here is a 1 hour attempt at getting QtCurve to look like Windows 7. Use the QtCurve configuration to import it.I only have tried it on my system, with my color scheme. A link is also included...
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@TimeBandit I figured I get much less annoying stuff happening when I stick with whatever DE Ubuntu ships out of the box, than when I insisted on running whatever thing I thought might be interesting.
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Here is a 1 hour attempt at getting QtCurve to look like Windows 7.
Yeah, I can tell. That looks horrible compared to both Win7 or other KDE themes. Of course, it's still miles ahead of Win8+/GTK/Unity/whatever-the-hell-Ubuntu-uses
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@sockpuppet7 said in Lenovo is really crap:
I figured I get much less annoying stuff happening when I stick with whatever DE Ubuntu ships out of the box,
That's your issue, right there
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@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
They're all new and fangled. I'm a grumpy old man now. Nothing newer that windows 7 classic theme for me thank you.
Khm... ArchLinux + Cinnamon with Infinality package / settings and Windows TrueType fonts.
Now that's just an incomprehensible word salad.
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@TimeBandit said in Lenovo is really crap:
@sockpuppet7 said in Lenovo is really crap:
I figured I get much less annoying stuff happening when I stick with whatever DE Ubuntu ships out of the box,
That's your issue, right there
That was the one that annoyed me the least while I still had patience to test new distros.
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@Onyx said in Lenovo is really crap:
Never had a major complaint against anything of theirs in X or T series (and now P, I didn't even know those were a thing). The "fancy" Z or whatever series are a pile of shit though.
I have an old B570 (2012) that I put thru hell. (It's the computer that's used outdoors for scoring dog shows) It's still working fine... My Yoga2 is starting to get noisy (fan).
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@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
@TimeBandit said in Lenovo is really crap:
@Onyx said in Lenovo is really crap:
which manufacturer doesn't?
Apple
I have bootcamp windows nonsense on my work MacBook. Best Windows laptop ever.
That's what an old coworker said. Personally, I "spent" the same money and got 2x the machine! (Since I work on Windows, my boss / our IT allows me to order whatever I want as a replacement)
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@loopback0 said in Lenovo is really crap:
Linux has one of those new-fangled GUIs now.
I thought they had about 50 of them?
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@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
It is also the only way to get decent font rendering on Linux which doesn't cause your eyes to bleed.
Infinality is Dead-precated.
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@TimeBandit So does that mean that only eye-bleeding is supported now?
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@dcon said in Lenovo is really crap:
I thought they had about 50 of them?
Not quite 50 but you have lots of choices
- bash
- dash
- tcsh
- ksh
- zsh
- sh
- csh
- ash
- scsh
- mksh
- psh
etc
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@hungrier said in Lenovo is really crap:
@TimeBandit So does that mean that only eye-bleeding is supported now?
Well, you can install
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@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
@levicki said in Lenovo is really crap:
@DogsB said in Lenovo is really crap:
They're all new and fangled. I'm a grumpy old man now. Nothing newer that windows 7 classic theme for me thank you.
Khm... ArchLinux + Cinnamon with Infinality package / settings and Windows TrueType fonts.
Now that's just an incomprehensible word salad.
It is also the only way to get decent font rendering on Linux which doesn't cause your eyes to bleed.
Bleeding
edgeeyes is a Ubuntu default package.
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@TimeBandit said in Lenovo is really crap:
@dcon said in Lenovo is really crap:
I thought they had about 50 of them?
Not quite 50 but you have lots of choices
- bash
- dash
- tcsh
- ksh
- zsh
- sh
- csh
- ash
- scsh
- mksh
- psh
etc
etc is my favourite!
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@dcon
5 of them kinda work
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@Luhmann said in Lenovo is really crap:
5 of them kinda work
They all work better then Windows10 with his two different control panel and things that change places every new release
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